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Originally Posted by funkapus
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Well, he's not fretting the 5th string. Thumb is fretting 6th only, because his bass line is 6th and 4th strings. His thumb might well be muting the 5th though.
Personally, I can play the shape relatively easily, even fretting the 5th. I have normal-size hands, maybe even a little small for an adult male, but I can do it on classical neck as well as a steel-string neck (when I say "as well as" I don't mean "as easily as"
). I can't remember a time when I couldn't do it, but I'd bet I wouldn't have been able to as a beginner (that was a long time ago...). Hands - as you've found - do get more flexible the more you practice.
Do you know an RGD tune where all 6 strings are part of the pattern? I don't know that many of his songs, but I'm suspicious that all 6 strings of that shape are really necessary.